Colorado · Nonprofit
TREAD OF PIONEERS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
TREAD OF PIONEERS HISTORICAL COMMISSION (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $493,066 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($209,350). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $646k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $493k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Tread of Pioneers Historical Commission does
Mission
Mission: To preserve, share and celebrate the history and heritage of Steamboat Springs and Routt County through quality and engaging exhibits, programs, and education.Vision: The Tread of Pioneers Museum is an indispensable cultural asset and historical leader that engages and educates the public and fosters an appreciation of our communitys history.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education: Includes our interpretive exhibits and educational programming for all ages that includes school and other specialized family/child-focused tours and programs, historical walking tours, lecture and talks, interpretive tours of historic sites, historic film showings, etc. The museum prioritizes preservation, community outreach, and educational programming.
$355,610 spent$26,009 earned by the program76% of program spendingPreservation and maintenance of our TWO historic buildings and one new collections care building. These three buildings house the collection, exhibits, research center, and museum operation. The preservation of these buildings provide a facility that houses and safeguards our collection, space for the public to view the collection and exhibits, a community room for educational programming, staff offices, and a research center for historical documents and research.
$103,385 spent22% of program spendingCOLLECTION AND CONSERVATION: We are committed to the collection and preservation of the Museum's collection that includes artifacts, photographs, documents, films, manuscripts, oral history, etc.The collection is the heart of the Museum's activities and focus. A full-time curator focuses our efforts on active preservation and digitization efforts, as well as exhibits. Using professional conservator's assessments, the latest museum research and trends, and the American Alliance of Museum's best practices, the Museum strives to provide the best services to the community and our collection.
$11,806 spent$17,325 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $470,801.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.9M to $2.1M (+11%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of TREAD OF PIONEERS HISTORICAL COMMISSION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $27k → $63k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of TREAD OF PIONEERS HISTORICAL COMMISSION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
TREAD OF PIONEERS HISTORICAL COMMISSION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund TREAD OF PIONEERS HISTORICAL COMMISSION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 70% · 2019 60% · 2020 37% · 2021 42% · 2022 34% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
63% of TREAD OF PIONEERS HISTORICAL COMMISSION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $180k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $313k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
TREAD OF PIONEERS HISTORICAL COMMISSION has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TREAD OF PIONEERS HISTORICAL COMMISSION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TREAD OF PIONEERS HISTORICAL COMMISSION?
- TREAD OF PIONEERS HISTORICAL COMMISSION (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $493,066 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($209,350). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TREAD OF PIONEERS HISTORICAL COMMISSION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $493,066 in grants to TREAD OF PIONEERS HISTORICAL COMMISSION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TREAD OF PIONEERS HISTORICAL COMMISSION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $209,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TREAD OF PIONEERS HISTORICAL COMMISSION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing